Elizabeth Esch

Elizabeth Esch is Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at Barnard College-Columbia University. She is co-author, with David Roediger, of The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in United States History and is at work on the forthcoming, The Color Line and the Assembly Line: The Ford Motor Company in Brazil, South Africa and the United States. She has written on race and US imperialism in the Middle East and Latin America and teaches courses on the themes of race and empire in US history. She has a particular interest in labor process and militarism and has been a longtime activist for justice for Palestinians.